Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 5
My God!)" was written by a British admiral, Lord Fisher, in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917, one of the earliest known written uses.
Who acts: British admiral · What happens: write, know · To what, where: God, letter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British admiral), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 God | nmod:poss |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 written | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 God | punct |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 God | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 God | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux:pass |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 admiral | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 admiral | det |
| 10 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 admiral | amod |
| 11 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lord | punct |
| 13 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 admiral | appos |
| 14 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lord | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 letter | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 letter | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Winston | case |
| 20 | Winston | Winston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 letter | nmod |
| 21 | Churchill | Churchill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Winston | flat |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 1917 | case |
| 23 | 1917 | 1917 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 letter | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 1917 | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 letter | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 uses | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 uses | det |
| 28 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 uses | amod |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 uses | amod |
| 30 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 uses | amod |
| 31 | uses | use | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | past · passive | a British admiral | My God | a letter to Winston in 1917 | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in letter=Destination | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | write in a quote | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:5.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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